3-BATTERY OF DEATH
The Battery of Death, located between Sendeja and Estufa, was a construction of stone walls with embrasures and fairly tall wooden stockades which, located on the wharf edge, functioned as a rearguard of the Marina and San Agustín batteries.
Many photographs showing auxiliary volunteers standing guard were taken here at the time. Thus our familiarity with numerous scenes of civilians armed with Remington rifles, always in street scenes showing recognisable places such as Sendeja, San Nicolás, the Arenal and Isabel II Bridge.
The Arenal was also home to the Steamboat Wharf. These vessels with metallic hulls were used by some Bilbao families to leave the town in September 1873 when faced with the possible advance of the Carlist troops.
An example of this can be found in one of the chapters of Memorias de un Bilbaíno [Memoirs of a Bilbao Man], written by José de Orueta in 1929.
